Napoleon set up the CONTINENTAL SYSTEM which was an economic embargo from the entire continent of Europe against Britain. This kind of deprivation from goods would force British businesses to struggle both because of needed imported materials and the lack of a large external market to sell its goods. (While the United States and the British colonial empire still consumed British goods, there was much more volume to Britain-Europe trade than British-Americas trade.)
His Continental System was a failed economic boycott. His invasion of Egypt in the hope of ending the UK control of India did not gain him any allies.
The Continental system; Nobody in Europe (most of which was part of his Empire) to trade with Britain, or else. It didn't work, but smugglers loved it.
The British Isles.
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BRITISH NAVAL POWER prevented Napoleon from invading Great Britain.More InformationNapoleon's main military strength was in land battles, where he could effectively defeat nearly anything thrown at him. However, since Great Britain was an island, he would need to perform an amphibious landing on the British coast before he could maneuver effectively. In order to have a successful amphibious landing, the French Navy would need to control the sea and secure the passage of troops from the French coast to the British coast. This required decisively weakening and defeating the British Navy. Unfortunately for Napoleon, the Battle of Trafalgar showed that the British Navy was far better equipped and trained than the far larger French and Spanish Navies. As a result of the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, the British demonstrated their ability to control the seas and head off Napoleon's possible amphibious landing. This led Napoleon to put his plans of invading the United Kingdom on the backburner.
Their condition was bad. The economic stability was out of control and thanks to America the British were able to pick themselves up after the war.
Napoleon did wage economic warfare against Britain by the Continental Blockade, which forbade to all European country to trade with Great Britain. Also goods of British origin, carried by neutral vessels were not allowed to be disembarked into European ports and even enter the territorial waters of European countries.
Napoleon orders death for anyone who gives the hens food. They are rebelling because they don't want Napoleon to sell their eggs.
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Napoleon created the CONTINENTAL SYSTEM, which was an economic blockade (or embargo) by France and all French allies on the European Continent (Prussia, Austria, and Russia -- they were allies because they surrendered to France) on the United Kingdom. The embargo was actually relatively successful in destroying the British economy.However, an embargo harms the economies of both groups who do not trade with each other and Russia was far more dependent on trade with the United Kingdom than the UK was on trade with Russia. As a result, Russia broke the embargo and began trading with the United Kingdom. In order to compel Russia to follow the rules of the blockade, Napoleon was pressed to invade Russia and force a re-capitulation to the previously-agreed-to terms. This invasion, ironically, served to be Napoleon's undoing, leading to the destruction of his victorious armies.
Napoleon created the CONTINENTAL SYSTEM, which was an economic blockade (or embargo) by France and all French allies on the European Continent (Prussia, Austria, and Russia -- they were allies because they surrendered to France) on the United Kingdom. The embargo was actually relatively successful in destroying the British economy.However, an embargo harms the economies of both groups who do not trade with each other and Russia was far more dependent on trade with the United Kingdom than the UK was on trade with Russia. As a result, Russia broke the embargo and began trading with the United Kingdom. In order to compel Russia to follow the rules of the blockade, Napoleon was pressed to invade Russia and force a re-capitulation to the previously-agreed-to terms. This invasion, ironically, served to be Napoleon's undoing, leading to the destruction of his victorious armies.